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Evidence of Ancient Beaches Show Us a Mars With Large, Ice-Free Oceans
Beach day on the Red Planet? Learn more about how Mars may have had a massive ocean that created unique beaches.
A Jumping Lunar Robot Is About to Explore a Pitch-Black Moon Crater for the First Time
Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something ...
First detailed map of moon’s south pole area made from Chandrayaan data
Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where ...
NASA Hitches a Ride to the Moon to Map Water for Astronauts
Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists ...
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March 2025: What’s in the sky this month? A total lunar eclipse, Venus remains bright, and Mars and Jupiter continue to dominate
Mars and Jupiter dominate the late evenings ... The partial phase gradually covers each crater in progression, and soon the ...
NASA launches satellite for mission to map water on the moon
A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify places on the moon's surface ...
Lunar Trailblazer blasts off to map water on the moon
On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics ...
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Scientists Just Found Evidence of Ancient Martian Beaches
For now, the discovery of ancient beaches on Mars offers a glimpse into a time when the Red Planet may have been a blue one, ...
Scientists discover 3 billion-year-old beach buried on Mars
In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the ...
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Ancient Beaches Found on Mars Reveal The Red Planet Once Had Oceans
Mars – dusty, dry, and desert-clad – was once so rich in water it had not just lakes, but oceans, according to a new study.